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“The Mask of Agamemnon.” (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Stamnos (vase) depicting Odysseus tied to the mast listening to the songs of the Sirens, ca. 480 BC, Athens. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Mycenaean funerary stele with relief chariot scene, ca. 1600 BC. (Photo by Adam Nicolson)

Mycenaean gold cup, sixteenth century BC. (National Archaeological Museum of Athens. DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Mycenaean gold butterfly scales from the Shaft Graves, sixteenth century BC. (National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Photo by Adam Nicolson)

Attic terra-cotta Lekythos (oil flask), attributed to the Achilles Painter, ca. 440 BC. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art. akg-images)

A gold death suit for a Mycenaean child, sixteenth century BC. (National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Photo by Adam Nicolson)

Kantharos (drinking cup) depicting Odysseus and Nausicaa. (© The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved)

Extremaduran warrior with shield, sword and mirror. (Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Badajoz. Photo by Adam Nicolson)

Extremaduran warriors with bow, spear, shield, swords, a bubble-handled mirror, what may be a musical instrument and large, man-slaughtering hands. (Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Badajoz. Photo by Adam Nicolson)

Silver gilt Cypriot bowl, ca.725–675 BC. (© The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence)

Gold libation bowl, ca. 625 BC, found at Olympia, 1916. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photo by Adam Nicolson)

Minoan Kamares eggshell ware cup. (Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Ivory cosmetics case in the form of a duck. (© The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved. Photo by Adam Nicolson)

Minoan bath, mid-fourteenth century BC. (© Carlos Collection of Ancient Art, Emory University)

Dionysus on a boat, surrounded by dolphins, 530 BC. (Staatliche Antikensammlung, Munich. Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS

Mural from Palace of Nestor at Pylos. (Courtesy of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati)

Rue Contrescarpe-Dauphine, ca. 1866, by Charles Marville. (Courtesy of Philippe Mellot)

Draft of Keats’s sonnet “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” October 1816. (Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University)

The title page of the 1788 Iliad edited by Villoison. (Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University)

Detail from p. 111 of the Venetus A scholia. (Center for Hellenic Studies. © 2007, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy)

Milman Parry. (Courtesy of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University)

Bégan Lyútsa Nikshitch, photographed by Milman Parry. (Courtesy of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University)

Bronze spearheads. (Museo Archeologico Paolo Orsi, Syracuse. Photo by Adam Nicolson)

The Uffington White Horse commands the site of a first-century BC Celtic fort, Uffington, Oxfordshire, England. (James P. Blair/National Geographic/Getty Images)

Back of a first-century BC gold Celtic stater of the Parisii or Quarisii (Paris region). (Dea Picture Library/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Sophia Schliemann, bedecked with diadem from Troy found by Heinrich Schliemann. (Time Life Pictures/Mansell/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)